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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 420, 18 October 1876, Page 2

A quarrel has taken place between Moody and Sankey. Moody has appropriated over six thousand dollars of thank offerings from the converted sinners, and gave Sankey one thousand. The latter threatens law proceedings at Chicago. A committee is endeavoring to hush up the matter. The Shearers at Oamaru boast of a Society which has now been founded three years. Its object is maintaining the price of labour and affording timely relief to those who require it. There are now 200 members, and they have to their credit about £l5O available in cases of accident or distress. Dr Carr, the mesmerist and phrenologist, has been exchanging civilities with the editor of the Wairarapa Standard. The following letter from Dr Carr, said to have been forwarded to the offending journalist, has been published: — “ Sir, —I beg to return, in half-penny stamps, the one and four pence you paid me four months ago for a chart of your head. In doing so, permit me to say a word in explanation. During the 25 years I have been in active practice, I have examined all kinds of heads, from the head of a sucking pig to that of a barber’s pole, but your head is, without doubt, the most extraordinary phenomenon of the kind 1 ever witnessed. But for the fact that you presented the thing to tne poised upon a pair of human human shoulders, I should have imagined that you had made a mistake and brought the fore quarter of a jackass to be operated upon. I have often heard your readers complain of the unmitigated twaddle with which your columns are filled, but if they had read your head as I do, they would not be in the least astonished.—l am, Ac., The Doctor. The trial of Mr Speedy's patent wool press took place to-day in the presence of a large number of gentlemen. The chief merit of Mr Speedy's press is that while wool can be pressed much quicker than in the old screw presses, it is also much cheaper—the cost being less than onethird the price of the screw machine. Besides the advantage named, great improvements are effected wh'ch render the work of pressing a much cheaper process than hitherto. The whole thing is so simple that a mere novice can readily understand how to work it. The txix in which the empty pack is placed contains a novel contrivance for gripping the edges of the pack, and holding it fast under any pressure. When this is properly secured the wool is placed in and stamped down with the feet till the pack is well filled ; then the box is enlarged by folding doors, which shut in and double the size of the original box. More wool is then put in, and stamped till the press will hold no more. Then the top —a heavy sort of lid fitting nearly into the mouth of the press and having ropes attached—holding a square piece of packing to cover the mouth of the bale is let down, and the ropes, which lead from it on each side to the foot of the press, are gradually tightened by a couple of ratchet w inches till the wool is brought on a level with the packing in the first box. When this is done, the folding doors are opened, and the bale sewn up. This occupies but a short time, and then the top is raised, a door on the side of the bottom box is opened, and the bale, all ready for shipment, is turned out. The trial to-day occupied about 35 minutes, but we are informed when everything is in working order, from 15 to 20 minutes are sufficient to pack, press, and sew the bale. The press is made almost entirely of wood, and its cost is about £25. Messrs. Robertson and Co., of the Phsenix Foundry, in whose premises the trial took place, are the makers, and have certainly carried out the original design in a very creditable and workmanlike manner. The previous design by Mr Speedy was somewhat similar to the present, only that instead of havingfoldingdoorsthe top of the press lifted off on hinges. The present design is a most decided improvement on all other presses we have seen, and froir the cheapness with which it can be constructed, few wool growers are likely to be without one or more. Most of the gentlemen present expressed themselves highly satisfied with the patent, A second trial was made immediately after the first,and proved still more satisfactory. Wellington Argus.